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Players · C · 2B · 2005 regular season

Deivi Cruz

Age
33
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#8
Born
November 6, 1972 in Bani, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
April 1, 1997

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dbWAR
.2
Regular season, 2005 only
PA
275
AVG
.265
OBP
.298
SLG
.373
wRC+
78
100 = avg

Deivi Cruz was a second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. In 2005 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 20 RBIs, notching 69 hits across 275 plate appearances in 93 games. His batting average was .265, level with the league average of .264. He reached base at a .298 clip and slugged .373, for an OPS of .671, 10.5% lower than the league mark of .749 — 11th of 13 on his team, and 332nd of 431 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 82.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 78 wRC+ puts his offence 22% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -7.5 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +0.8 on double plays, +1.7 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2005 regular season.

wRC+78
wOBA.297
ISO.108
BB%4.0%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to +2.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-7.5Ballpark+0.2Baserunning-0.5Double plays+0.8Position+1.7Replacement+7.7
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005SF/WSH932756952001134.265.298.373.108.2904.0%12.4%.297-7.5780.2—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP109103322510.311.343.466.3559.2%
vs RHP166157373624.236.268.312.25814.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.

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Situational hitting

How Deivi Cruz hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

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By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations275——————.265.298.373.297
Bases empty1431373633616.263.294.365.293
Runner on first6055160228.291.328.382.317
Runners on13212333217518.268.302.382.301
RISP726817215310.250.282.382.288

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2005.

Not in the 2005 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.